Mercator’s Map of Pays Boulonnais & Guînes

This is Mercator's map of Pays Boulonnais and Guînes from the Atlas Minor.

The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos.

Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among ‘the better circumstanced people - potential buyers of atlases’.

Condition & Materials

Copper engraving, 15 x 18.3 cm, later hand-colour, Dutch text on verso.

References

Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 197